Word: glazer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wall Street welcomed the firm's cost-cutting moves. Said Eugene Glazer, who follows the photo industry for Dean Witter Reynolds: "It will be painful in the short run, but Kodak will reap the rewards in the long run, starting next year." Few workers, however, were looking that far ahead. Said one: "The question on my mind is, Will I still have...
Minolta's head start could prove hard to overcome. "They have a lot of momentum," says Eugene Glazer, a photo-industry specialist for the Dean % Witter Reynolds investment firm. Spurred by the Maxxum, Minolta's profits jumped almost 60% in the first half of fiscal 1985, to $28.5 million. The price of Minolta shares, which are traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, has increased about 60% since January 1985. Minolta closed last week at $4.82 a share...
Immigrants flock to certain fields for a variety of reasons. The new occupations are often adaptations of what the immigrants did before. "People look for a match between what they can do and what offers an opportunity," says Harvard Sociologist Nathan Glazer. "They try to find a niche, and what's surprising is that there's always a niche to fill." Jewish tailors from Central and Eastern Europe became important in the American garment industry in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Chinese laborers, barred by discrimination from many occupations in the American West, found that they could become entrepreneurs...
...Like Glazer, Graham says the changes in higher education over the years represent increased enrollment more than a decline in academic quality. "A perceived decline is something that is usually described when a substantial new population enters the schools," she says. So while a Harvard education may be better than ever, "there are more XYZ colleges out there today...a great gamut...
...Glazer concurs "The groups involved are not authoritative enough and the crisis is not widespread enough that these reports will have an enormous impact." In fact, Glazer says, he has only fully read one of the reports...